All you have to do is hop over to the Settings page.There you can: toggle real-time protection; exclude particular file names, file types, and file locations from all scans; exclude particular system processes from being scanned or flagged; exclude archive files or external drives from being scanned; force a System Restore point before scanning; or toggle MAPS participations (covered in the next section). One of the advanced features of Windows Defender is something called Microsoft Active Protection Service (or MAPS for short).Switching to Session 0 will not be available when the ISD service is not running!

Is it as sophisticated as a dedicated third-party tool? These reports help Microsoft to develop stronger definitions that other Windows Defender users can benefit from.

Microsoft stepped up security with Windows 8 and changed all of that.

Here’s what you need to know about today’s Windows Defender, whether it’s good enough to use, and the downsides you need to be aware of before trusting it as your primary security tool.

Personally I have not seen a blue screen even when the tech tried to make it blue screen, my brother is the one who told me it was blue screening a lot.

I just experience the restarts crashes and then some more :) Would my hard drive have anything to do with it? And lastly, I am going to install the graphics driver that was originally on here (came on disk with motherboard) for some reason anything updated wiggs the computer way out!

The applet lists the Windows Services installed on the PC: Double-click an entry to reveal its specific properties: You can start, stop, pause or resume the service as appropriate.